17 YEARS of TROPICAL AND DESERT PLANTS
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flacidda x faxonii success!

Posted by Don on June 5, 2017, 10:06 am

I finally had success at hand polination. Used frozen faxonii pollen on one of the commercially available "filimentosa" variegates. The pic of the whole plant looks like it has something growing from the top of the flower stalk but it's a dasylirion flower scape in the far background. If the 2 fruit make it to maturity I hope the seedlings have enough normal green on them for photosynthesis.

The faxonii pollen was dried in a baggie of rice as a dessicant and frozen in early May? or possibly April. Sorry for not keeping accurate records. It's been a couple of weeks at least since I pollinated and had to spray the plant repeatedly for Florida Leaf Footed bugs. Because of the multitude of flowers and bugs I didn't notice my success earlier. It was less than an hour from the freezer to the flower on the pollen.